News|Oct 29, 2014

Azure Marketplace: One Stop Cloud Shopping Overview

Microsoft Has Launched A New and Improved Azure Marketplace! Microsoft announced yesterday a new Azure Marketplace freshly stocked to the ceiling with new cloud products ready to integrate into your Azure environments.  From virtual machine images to cloud services, this release has dozens of partner and Microsoft based items to choose from. Using the marketplace…
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editorial|Oct 27, 2014

The Architect Files: No Bad Design

Be careful before you write off existing software as bad design, you are probably making the same choices yourself! When you’re an architect, you inevitably find yourself the proud owner of a system or product that you didn’t design but that’s been serving its users for years. This can be a traumatic experience, particularly when…
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Developer Lifestyle|Oct 24, 2014

Are you a “Genius” Coder?

Show off your skills and prove to us all what Genius code really looks like! I was recently at the movie theater when I saw a trailer for the upcoming cyber-thriller “Blackhat“.  In the trailer Chris Hemsworth plays an all too handsome hacker (aren’t we all) who is described by some vague and mysterious authority…
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wintellectnow|Oct 23, 2014

Script the Cloud with Azure Automation

Learn to use the new automation features in Azure to script your cloud management tasks As more and more of our data center moves to the cloud, day-to-day management becomes increasingly more important.  In this video from Razi bin Rais new course “Getting Started with Azure Automation” you’ll see how to use the new Management…
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Survey|Oct 20, 2014

Has Apple Jumped The Shark?

Last week’s iPad/Mac announcements have left more than a few people wondering “Where’s our one more thing?”  This follows a less than mind blowing iPhone launch in which Apple released hardware that by modern smartphone standards is 3 year old technology.  Apple was even beaten to the punch on wearables with Samsung, LG, and Motorola all releasing…
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News|Oct 16, 2014

Connect with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team on November 12th and 13th

Microsoft announces Connect(), an online developer event to showcase the future of software development with Visual Studio! Microsoft announced today that Visual Studio and the next version of its developer toolset will be the centerpiece on November 12 of an event called Connect(); in New York City. Microsoft CVP of the Developer Division, S. “Soma”…
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news|Oct 16, 2014

Run Linux Apps on Windows Server with Docker

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Docker to provide app virtualization support for Docker containers in Windows Server and Azure! This partnership furthers the relationship in which Microsoft announced support for Docker containers with Linux on Azure.  Now Microsoft is announcing a combination of integrations including: Investments in the next wave of Windows Server Open-source development of…
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news|Oct 14, 2014

Try Out Apache Cordova in Visual Studio

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team makes learning more about Apache Cordova easier with a new fully loaded Azure VM Interested in building hybrid mobile apps without leaving the comfort of Visual Studio?  Not sure what a hybrid mobile app is?  Now you can experiment to your heart’s content without installing a single SDK.  Microsoft’s Visual Studio team…
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wintellectnow|Oct 12, 2014

Work Smarter Not Harder with Visual Studio Extensions

Learn to use Visual Studio’s Extensibility Features to automate your team’s development Visual Studio is more than just an IDE for creating your own applications, it’s also a platform for developer productivity.  In this video excerpt from Eric Greene’s course Introduction to Visual Studio Extensions, Part 2 you’ll see how to use the EnvDTE2 object…
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news|Oct 7, 2014

Microsoft Announces New Azure Cloud Services

Microsoft announces Redis Cache, Disaster Recovery, Tagging, Elastic Scale for SQLDB and more new features for Azure Microsoft has let loose a veritable storm of new products in their Azure cloud environment today.  This announcement marked the graduation from Preview to General Availability for features like Redis Cache, Azure Site Recovery, Tag support, DocumentDB support for…
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